Club of Rome Revisited

Coming from almost any other organization, a
call for economic growth to alleviate world poverty would produce only
yawns. From the Club of Rome, it is an intellectual bombshell. The Club
—really an informal organization of some 100 top International
businessmen, scientists and thinkers—has been synonymous with advocacy
of a no-growth world ever since it produced its explosive little book,
The Limits to Growth, in 1972. Using a complicated computer model of
the world, the book argued that because the earth's resources were
finite, mankind might starve or suffocate in pollution if...